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Roblox (NYSE:RBLX) is set to report its first-quarter earnings after the market close on Monday, May 10. This will be the online platform s first earnings report since going public in March.
Investors will be closely watching how well Roblox is monetizing its users, since much of the content on the platform is free. One of the metrics management uses to evaluate the company s performance is average bookings per daily active user. The further Roblox can grow this number, the more valuable its platform becomes in the long run.
Apple tried to stop Netflix from dropping in-app purchases, emails reveal
The emails from Apple dates back to December 2018 when Netflix dropped new users from signing up for a subscription from Netflix for iPhone app.
India Today Tech | May 7, 2021 | Updated 13:34 IST
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The ongoing trial between Epic Games and Apple has revealed internal emails from Apple pursuing Netflix to not stop in-app purchases.
The emails date back to 2018 when Apple was less than a year away from launching its Apple TV+ platform.
The emails discuss various ways in which Apple and Netflix could find a middle ground and also suggest punitive measures for Netflix.
Fortnite at the end of 2020
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Sony may have finally allowed cross-platform play on Playstation in 2018, but it also charges publishers royalties in case Sony loses business to its console competitors, says Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney.
It’s another revelation surfacing in documents related to the ongoing Epic Games/Apple lawsuit, whose trial started on Monday. While both Nintendo and Microsoft were early adopters of cross-console play, via Epic Games’
Fortnite,Sony held out and consistently blocked Epic and other publishers from enabling it with the PlayStation 4 versions of their games.
Even Fortnite’s swelling popularity in 2018 wasn’t enough to budge Sony at first. In senior-level emails between Epic and Sony, revealed in the Epic v. Apple trial, and reported by The Verge, Epic was confident Sony would capitulate because
Jarden Brief: US markets in the red, Nasdaq down 2.4%
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New Zealand: On Tuesday, the NZX50 recorded a strong performance, increasing 1.1 per cent.
Ahead of the Global Dairy Trade Auction, milk powder producer A2 Milk and dairy company Synlait Milk increased 3.4 per cent to $7.99 and 3.0 per cent to $3.39 respectively, closing as the top performers of the day. Napier Port Holdings (+2.3 per cent to $3.57) rounded out the top performers, correcting some of the losses from Monday s session.
The GDT auction this morning saw fats down after additional butter supply was announced last week. AMF was down 4.2 per cent and butter was down 12.1 per cent. The large increases seen in US corn prices in the past 3-4 months have pushed US SMP prices higher and supported the values seen in other origins, including New Zealand. WMP was up 0.7 per c
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Just over eight months after she signed up for Twitter, actor Kangana Ranaut was permanently banned from the platform earlier today.
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Twitter bans Kangana Ranaut s account permanently
Twitter has permanently suspended the account of Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut for repeatedly violating its rules on hateful and abusive behaviour.
Why was she banned? In an Instagram Story, Ranaut said that her account was suspended after she put out a video on Twitter demanding that the President s rule be implemented in West Bengal. She also had tweeted on the alleged violence in the state following Mamata Banerjee-led All India Trinamool Congress’ assembly election victory on Sunday. This sparked outrage among Twitter users, who asked the platform to take action against her account.